Waite–Smith, Cups
Page of Cups
What you can see
A standing figure looks at a fish rising from the cup in one hand. Waves stretch across the background.
What Waite says
Waite treats the fish as an image of the mind taking form. He links the page with study, reflection, service and messages, keeping the imagined appearance distinct from a literal prediction.
Waite · Part III, §2 · printed p. 204 ↗In the Thoth deck
Waite’s courts are King, Queen, Knight and Page. Thoth has Knight, Queen, Prince and Princess, so a rank does not carry straight across. See both ways to match them.
Edition and image credits
Pamela Colman Smith, illustrations in The Pictorial Key to the Tarot, Rider 1922 reprint, first published 1910. The scans keep the printed borders and page marks, with no cropping or recolouring.